CEO take-home pay rockets as economy rebounds
by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Feb 25, 2013 | 819 views | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Over the next three months leading up to their annual shareholder meetings, about two dozen of Georgia’s big public companies will once again disclose eye-popping pay packages for 2012 that — in the case of Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent — maybe weighed in at roughly $30 million.

First up is Atlanta-based Genuine Parts, which is expected to disclose its executives’ 2012 compensation Tuesday. In 2011, the auto parts retailer paid its top five executives total compensation of $15.2 million — over half to its chief executive, Thomas Gallagher.

So what can we expect to see in this year’s proxy statements?

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mirage83
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February 25, 2013
I wonder how much the regular employees pay increased due to their hard work on the floor? Seems like most of the time now it's only the CEO's whose pay increases when the company does well.
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